William H. Macy Quotes

Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

William H. Macy

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• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Talent

• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Business
  • Today
  • Persuading

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Said

• When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.

  

  Washed Out
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Doors

• There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • World
  • Me
  • End

• I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Sports
  • New

• I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

  

  Halsey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Punk

• In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • President
  • Place
  • Direction

• I never know how much of what I say is true.

  

  Bette Midler
  • True

• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Moral
  • Habit

• If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Courage

• As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Teenager

• I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Simple

• Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Hair
  • Violence
  • Sex